Poor Morph my arse! Apparently it was him who burnt the place down.
It seems he's been consumed by jealousy over Wallaces success(Gromits been OK but Wallace has been all ego since the wrong trousers and pissing all the other models off round Ardmans studios). Hes been drinking heavily and dropped of with a lit cigarette in his little box last night.

Sad really, those close to him tried to get him to talk about his feelings but of course he couldnt.

That is so heart breaking... all those hours spent on classic figurines. All those thousands and thousands of sets of clay eye balls-- gone. Er, anyway. That is really sad though. *sniff* Shaun the sheep is no more. And poor poor Grommit.

Wouldn't the fire - like a kiln - bake them into eternal solidity? Like soldiers guarding Shi Huangdi's tomb, are they not now immortal, no longer wilting under the slightest touch? Is this not the spiritual goal of any lump of clay?

I say we accept their passing from the world of the amorphous solid to that of rigid solidity (no, not intentionally sounding like a Viagra ad here).

Wouldn't the fire - like a kiln - bake them into eternal solidity? Like soldiers guarding Shi Huangdi's tomb, are they not now immortal, no longer wilting under the slightest touch? Is this not the spiritual goal of any lump of clay?

I say we accept their passing from the world of the amorphous solid to that of rigid solidity (no, not intentionally sounding like a Viagra ad here).

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liquifies when heated, where the moisture is removed from clay and it becomes hard.

It's a real shame  although according to the BBC at least, the premises that went up in smoke was a warehouse containing the company archives and memorabilia  the studios themselves are located in another part of Bristol, so at least future production is unaffected.

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